Garment.



C. M. WALKER.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.2|.1915.

1 ,1 59,489, htented Nov. 9 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CO.,\VASHINGTON, D. C

, of reference CYRUS M. WALKER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

GARMENT.

Application filed January 21, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CYRUS M. WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garments and has for its principal object to provide an improved construction whereby the drawers may be held up about the waist and at the same time prevent the shirt from working up over the waist band of the drawers, whether worn inside or outside of the same; In accomplishing this object I have provided the details of structure hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure I is a View of a garment equipped with my improvement. Fig. II is an enlarged view of a portion of the garment, with the tab shown in Fig. I secured thereto. Fig. III is an enlarged view, showing the method of folding the tab to attach the shirt to the drawers when the shirt is worn inside of the drawers. Fig. IV is a sectional view through the members when the shirt is worn on the outside of the drawers. Fig. V is a similar View showing the connection when the shirt is worn inside of the drawers.

Referring more in detail to the drawings: 1 designates a garment, such as underdrawers, of ordinary construction. Secured in the upper portion of the drawers at the band position is an upwardly extending tab 2 provided on its outer face with a. button 5. The portion of the garment carrying the tab is also provided with a buttonhole 6 adapted for receiving the button 5 when the tab is folded over, as shown in Fig. III.

To use the improvement, the shirt is provided with buttonholes 7, which are preferably arranged at different elevations to provide adjustment in the manner hereinafter set forth, and located so that when the shirt is worn outside of the drawers the button 5 that is carried on the tab 2 will take thereinto to prevent the shirt from work- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915. Serial No. 3,493.

ing upward. Presuming the shirt to be worn beneath the drawers, the tab is folded downward, so that the button 5 may be projected through the buttonhole 6 and register within one of the shirt buttonholes 7; the plurality of buttonholes in the shirt making it possible to attach the tab to fit different trunk lengths. It will be seen that by so constructing the garment, the shirt may be effectively held from working upward about the waist and the drawers held at the de sired elevation.

-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. The combination with upper and lower garments, each having a buttonhole, of a tab attached to and foldable over one of the garments, and a button on said tab projectable through the buttonholes in both garments when the tab is folded over its carrying garment.

2. The combination ofan upper garment having a buttonhole therein, a lower garment having a buttonhole therein, a tab secured to the lower garment and extending thereabove and over the last named buttonhole, and a button on said tab projectable through the buttonhole in the upper garment when the tab is extended, and through the buttonholes in both garments when the tab is folded over the lower garment.

3. The combination with a lower garment having a buttonhole, of an upper garment having a bottom part adapted to lie within or without the lower garment and having a plurality of buttonholes, each of which is adapted for registration with the buttonhole in the lower garment, a tab extending from the edge of the lower garment above the buttonhole therein and foldable onto said lower garment, and a button on said tab projectable through any one of the but tonholes in the upper garment when the tab is extended or through one of the buttonholes in the upper garment and through the buttonhole in the lower garment when the tab is folded and the buttonholes are in registration.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CYRUS M. WVALKER.

Witnesses:

LETA E. GoA'rs, LYNN A. RoBINsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. i 

